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Haha! If my liver goes out, it won't be because it was squeezed by my hammock.

.. truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. - Herman Melville

sheesh, just imagine what people will realize we don't know 130 years from now

"Every day is a new day to a better future" "Of all the things that matter, that really and truly matter, working more efficiently and getting more done is not among them." ~ Mike Dooley"What if I told you that you couldn't have anymore of anything... No more friends, no more money, no more anything, until you first got happy with what you have?"~ Mike Dooley"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." ~ Socrates

I tried to read it, but every time they mentioned "piazza", I got hungry....

Call me Junior

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"For a couple of bucks, get a weird haircut and waste your life away" Bryan Adams....
"Hammock hangs are where you go into the woods to meet men you've only known on the internet so you can sit around a campfire to swap sewing tips and recipes." - sargevining on HF

I'm pretty sure it's satirical. It's a little hard to tell since our sensibilities have changed so much, but I don't think they were sincere when they talked about Central Americans laying in their hammocks all day, with only short breaks to get up and start revolutions. It makes me wonder, if someone in the year 2140 watches the Colbert Report, will they get the joke or just think we were all ridiculous?

.. truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. - Herman Melville

Hey everyone,,, I was poking around the New York Times and found this...

It was written in 1881... and to say the least is interesting..

Yet just another reason to understand the difference between correlation and, cause and effect. I wonder what kinds of misinformed statements we are throwing around now, that someone will chuckle over 100+ years from now. No, wait, I can think of many!

“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”
― Alan W. Watts